Dupli-Kate

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Dupli-Kate
Publication information
Publisher Image Comics
First appearance Invincible #2
Created by Robert Kirkman
Cory Walker
Voiced by Leslie-Anne Huff
(motion comic)
Malese Jow
(web series)
In-story information
Alter egoKate Cha
Team affiliations Guardians of the Globe
Teen Team
AbilitiesThe ability to generate multiple copies of herself

Dupli-Kate is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Image Comics title Invincible. She was previously a member of the Teen Team and is now one of the Guardians of the Globe.

Fictional character biography

Dupli-Kate's power is mystical in origin. The result of an ancient curse by a Chinese Emperor against his usurper, the Warlord Fung Cha, moments before his death. The curse was: "The seventh generation after Cha's seventh grandchild would be burdened with a family too large to care for... and it would drive him mad."

Hundreds of years later, the appointed grandchild, Tsing Cha, became the single father of twins, Paul and Kate. As toddlers they began to multiply uncontrollably and eventually fulfilled the curse by driving Tsing Cha mad.

At puberty, the twins gained control of their powers and can now generate and absorb duplicates at will. Multi-Paul, as Paul was called, kept himself hidden until Kate's death was public knowledge, then he starts a murderous rampage against Rex Splode and Invincible, holding them responsible for Kate's demise.

Dupli-Kate became a member of the Teen Team, where she was involved in the breakup of Rex Splode and Atom Eve after Eve walked in on Rex cheating with multiple copies of Kate. Along with her fellow Teen Team teammates, Robot and Rex Splode, Kate joined the new Guardians of the Globe after the old Guardians were murdered. Rex later found Kate cheating on him with the Immortal. Kate's relationship with the Immortal grew more serious and after a brief engagement they were married in a private ceremony.

In a recent fight with the Lizard League, Kate was apparently killed until issue #46 of Invincible, Dupli-Kate appears stating that she had her original self hidden away for protection. When "she" died during the fight with the Lizard League, only the copies died while her original self was somewhere undisclosed. She reveals that all of her clones share the same consciousness, and as long as one remains alive, she can't truly be killed.

She returns to stop Paul's rampage, only to find that Invincible came first, and refusing to hear her pleas, wants to put Paul in jail.


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